For years, New Jersey barred U.S.-born college students from receiving state financial aid if their parents were in this country illegally. Last week, a state court of appeals put an end to that misguided policy, finding that education officials had wrongly denied aid to an 18-year-old student born and raised in the United States because her Guatemalan mother is an undocumented immigrant. Though it is binding only in New Jersey, the ruling should serve as a warning to other states — such as Florida, where U.S.-born residents are required to pay out-of-state college tuition simply because their parents are undocumented.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-financial-aid-immigrant-parents-20120817,0,332041.story